Jeremiah

¹¹This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. ¹²“It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says the Lord, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Kasdim desolate forever. ¹³I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations. ¹⁴For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.” ¹⁵For the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it. ¹⁶They will drink, and reel back and forth, and be insane, because of the sword that I will send among them.” ¹⁷Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom the Lord had sent me: